MOUNT ATHOS, Greece — Mount Athos, a verdant peninsula in northern Greece, has been a center of Christian Orthodox monasticism for more than 1,000 years. The all-male autonomous community, known in ...

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (AP) — The medieval monastery clings almost impossibly to sheer cliffs high above the shimmering turquoise of the Aegean Sea. Rising from the rugged granite rock, its walls enclose ...

Founded in the 13th century on Greece’s Mount Athos, the monastery houses monks from more than a dozen countries, including France, China, the United States, and Lebanon. Also known as Simonopetra, or ...

MINSK, 1 August (BelTA) - Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko suggested building a Belarusian church at the Valaam Monastery as he met with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Valaam Island, ...